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 regarding libgdata: unmaintained upstream 
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 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:41:41 +0100 
 From: Simon McVittie  
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 Subject: libgdata: unmaintained upstream 
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 Source: libgdata 
 Severity: important 
 Tags: trixie sid upstream wontfix 
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 According to comments on 
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 libgdata is effectively unmaintained upstream. I am not aware of any 
 obvious replacement. 
  
 Several packages in Debian depend on it and would be broken by its 
 removal, but its uses in most of them are trivial/obsolete: 
  
 Genuine(?) uses 
 --------------- 
  
 - gvfs has a runtime dependency, for the Google Drive plugin. This could 
   be disabled by compiling with -Dgoogle=false if desired. 
  
 - gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect Recommends the GIR typelib. I haven't 
   investigated further. 
  
 Obsolete references 
 ------------------- 
  
 - eog-plugins Build-Depends on libgdata-dev but doesn't use it any more 
   (it's for a plugin for Google PicasaWeb, which was disabled after 
   Google discontinued the web service). 
  
 - gnome-photos Build-Depends on libgdata-dev but doesn't use it any more 
   (the plugin was disabled in order to avoid a libsoup2 / librest 0.7 
   dependency) 
  
 - grilo-plugins Build-Depends on libgdata-dev, but there's a change staged 
   in its git repo to remove the build-dependency 
  
 - shotwell Build-Depends on libgdata-dev but I don't see any sign that 
   it's used, maybe a plugin was removed? 
  
 - totem Build-Depends on libgdata-dev but I don't see any sign that 
   it's used, maybe a plugin was removed? 
  
 I think we should seriously consider removing this from trixie. 
  
     smcv 
  
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